How "objective" are psychiatric diagnoses?: (guess again).
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Critics of psychiatry often argue that psychiatric diagnosis lacks "objectivity," particularly when compared with diagnosis in other medical specialties. However, when one examines interrater reliability-an important component of objectivity-the kappa values for several major psychiatric disorders are generally on a par with those in other medical specialties. Nonetheless, in psychiatry as in all of general medicine, there is an irreducible element of the subjective. That is part of the "art" of medical and psychiatric practice.
Source: PubMed Central
Author: Ronald Pies
Institution: SUNY Upstate Medical University
Language: English
Topic: Mental Health and Psychiatry
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W137181320